Show liTHE MODERN mm mm CITY SUBJECT il OF TALK Adam Dixon Warner Gives a Forceful Lecture on Civic Vice at Y M C A IMPROVEMENT IS NEEDED ADVOCATES AVIATION CONTEST IN PLACE OF PRIZE FIGHT For an hour yesterday afternoon Adam Dixon Warner of Los Angeles held the fixed attention of an audience that filled the assembly room and crowded tho the cor corridors corridors corridors of the tho Y T M C A building Mr Warner Varner delivered his lecture on The Modern City which was in effect an arraignment of the iniquities of the pres pros present present ent day civic governments Mr Warner Is an orator of unusual magnetic force He is of the Bryan andLa and andLa La Folletto Follette type and combines with his forceful and convincing manner of de delivery delivery livery of oC his arguments a thorough grasp of facts of existing conditions A lawyer laver by profession he has made a Co study of civic governments go for tor the last twenty years yearn His was a Co total tots of comparisons and holding to tho the light vivid word pic pictures pictures pIctures tures of or graft gratt and municipal m corruption He said in part keep the modern city clean lean A city will be good and clean Just lust as its men and women its society is good and clean and great By society I mean each and every individual and unit It is you and it is I ITo ITo ITo To govern a modern city is a very different thing from governing the cities clUes I of the past They were mere provinces with a frugal population scattered over great areas with diversified and fixed places of ot abode while our modern cities are the tha dumping grounds for the Slav the Hindu Italian and ana Yiddish pauper labor brought to this country by the steamship lines owned and dominated by bythe bythe bythe the interests In contrast to the splendid type two of Scandinavian Irish or German who a few years ago came to acquire homes City Will wm Dominate The city of today dominates the tho coun country country country try For the first time in the history of the tha country the next census will show a majority population In the cities clUes In III them are the newspapers the colleges the schools of ot arts and sciences the great teachers and preachers and the theatres of action and Inaction the places placed of ol amusement and instruction and the places of and destruction And they are till all dominated by one ono great force one that steals through h special privileges and returns through colleges universities and civic control Disguise as we may such is the character of our ties lUes today I make the bold statement that there Is not a city in the United States that is free from graft in Its civic government The promotion and overcapitalization of ot public service series corporations is graft The court records of our cities clUes dis disclose disC lose close C not only the necessity of absolute control of public utilities but disclose the necessity of some control over the ordin ordinary cry ary business transactions of men to insure honest and square dealings Some men say that you cannot make a man honest bon est by b law That may be literally true but you can prevent him from being too dis dishonest dishonest dishonest honest You can scare dishonesty into honesty by law lawI I say to you that t at you might as well try to dam up Niagara without stopping the th supply of water as to stop graft gratt without changing the conditions If the city Is rotten then the majority of Its citizens are rotten or your our government is a living lie He Must Make Changes Until you ou remove the saloon from your best business corners and best business streets where your sons eons and daughters are forced to run the tho gauntlet of moral depravity and displace them with moral influences h until you stop putting 50 60 to tol l jQ gin mills on your best business thor thoroughfares thoroughfares thoroughfares until you stop masquerading as a Christian gentleman on Sunday and voting noting for that Increased rent from the bawdy Vawdy house on Monday until you re remove remove remove move the death houses from the streets and put a few places of pleasant recreation recreation recreation tion and amusement for the young men and young oung women In their stead until sou ou change that poker room or bridge room into a quiet devotional room where you can take tako that boy or girl girt and sit down by his bis or her side elda like a brother until you quit ringing up that telephone and asking Jack or Tom or Billy to bring up a flask in the afternoon before the old man comes home you OU will have rotten cities clUes and rotten government and rotten homes The rottenness of New York Chicago San Francisco and a hundred other cities clUes of America is so appalling today that It Is Isa Isa a 8 wonder that the indulgence and mercy of Almighty God has not been withdrawn long ago Some of you young men are now and wIthin a very few years ears all of you will willbe be he shaping tho the destiny of not only civic but Lut national government and the destiny rt of f this republic Is in your keeping It Its Its s a truism of history that civic virtue and ard t d national citizenship is no better nor higher than the Individual citizenship of the community or as each unit of so 50 et Is high or low Fight I see by your press that a number of ar ut business men are reputed to have havet t sed to get a big and a burly bruising boilermaker t e i give an exhibition of what they call f lence dence to advertise your city It is such t f Ings that have degraded the citizenship or f our cities until today toda the licentiousness rf f American cities Is as bad as that of ot the ancient cities of Sodom and Babylon Ninevah and Tyre Rome and the modern Paris I think I could show ou things in Iniquity in the cities of ot ofSan ofSan San Francisco New York and Chicago that they never even dreamed of in times I 1 want to make this suggestion to you oung lung men what an advertisement It would be to the world If tomorrow morn morning mornIng morning ing the Associated Press would announce that young men of the city of Salt Lake a garden spot of the world would go as a committee to the Commercial t lab of Salt Lake and say Gentlemen some Mme men have raised for tor a prize Ight We want you to raise for tor an aviation week which would be truly a scientific week and we want one elm tar lar to that contemplated In New York and Chicago Or we suggest that you give to erect an observatory on Ensign peak that could be an adjunct of the university and would rival even the lIt little Mo tle tt town of ot Flagstaff Ariz That would be a true advertisement ad for your city Mr Warners lecture was preceded by bythe bythe bythe the usual Sunday afternoon program I of musical selections and tural lesson |